Vijay meets governor R V Arlekar in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday. CHENNAI: The mood in the TVK camp changed from jubilation on Wednesday morning to anxiety in the evening, when C Joseph Vijay’s party was staring at a gap of five seats even after Congress offered support.TVK sources said the governor insisted on letters of…
CHENNAI: DMK will wait for TVK leader C Joseph Vijay to form the govt, and “watch without disturbing for six months”, outgoing chief minister M K Stalin told TOI on Wednesday.Indicating that DMK doesn’t want a constitutional crisis or another election soon, Stalin said he expects the new govt to continue the schemes introduced by…
CHENNAI: After a day-long hectic parleys, AIADMK on Wednesday ruled out “any support under any circumstances” to actor Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) to form a govt in Tamil Nadu.“Under no circumstances is our party going to extend support to TVK. I am conveying this with the permission of our party general secretary, Edappadiyar (Edappadi…
CHENNAI: A resident of Kodungaiyur has moved the Madras high court seeking to register a cheating and money laundering case against chief minister-designate and TVK founder Vijay for alleged suppression of financial transactions and receipt of unaccounted cash as renumeration.The first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan, through an…
SALEM: All India NR Congress (AINRC) leader and Puducherry chief minister N Rangasamy on Wednesday lauded Congress’s decision to support TVK president Vijay to form a govt in Tamil Nadu. “It is a good political decision in a situation where a govt has to be formed,” Rangasamy told reporters here. Rangasamy’s AINRC is part of…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Congress leaders on Wednesday met TVK president Vijay at the party headquarters in Chennai and extended support to the party to form the government in the state following a hung Assembly verdict. The delegation included Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K Selvaperunthagai, Congress Legislature Party leader S Rajesh Kumar, AICC functionary Praveen…
CHENNAI: Senior AIADMK leaders S P Velumani and C Ve Shanmugam are holding a meeting with party General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami at his camp office on Greenways Road. The meeting is focused on whether to extend support to Vijay’s TVK to form the government. However, Palaniswami is unwilling to offer “voluntary support” to the…
CHENNAI: The Congress severed its 11-year ties with the DMK and decided to support TVK. AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu Girish Chodankar announced that Congress would support TVK on the condition that there should be no “communal forces” in the alliance.Girish Chodankar, in a statement, said Congress supports the people’s mandate. “It is our constitutional…
Chennai: City researchers have identified a locally found freshwater microalgae that can ‘eat’ plastic waste in polluted water bodies in three months. A study by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, University of Madras, found that Uronema trentonense, isolated from plastic waste in Rajakilpakkam Lake, can degrade up to 27% of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)…
Chennai: The city police have arrested two men involved in a mobile phone snatching case in Vepery and seized a stolen two-wheeler.On May 3, the victim, Ilanchezhiyan, 38, was walking along Thana Street when two men on a two-wheeler followed him, snatched his mobile phone, and fled the scene. Based on his complaint, Vepery police…
